Indonesia

Grab has held on-and-off talks with GoTo for years, according to earlier media reports. But a merger never materialized, partially due to antitrust concerns likely to arise from combining Southeast Asia’s two dominant ride-hailing and food-delivery groups.

GoTo Group, the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia, and Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced Thursday the successful migration of GoTo Financial’s infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud’s data centers in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Danantara has started preliminary discussions with GoTo to acquire a minority stake in a combined entity, according to people familiar with the matter, the report said.

As part of ongoing efforts to expand Southeast Asia’s digital infrastructure, DBS and UOB have jointly provided a landmark IDR 6.7 trillion ($413 million) loan facility to finance the development of a new data centre campus in Batam, Indonesia.

Indonesian tech firm PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk (GoTo) and telecommunication company Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison have announced the latest advancement in Indonesia's open-source large language model (LLM) ecosystem with the launch of Sahabat-AI's 70-billion parameter model and multilingual chat service.

VISION+, an Indonesia-based over-the-top（OTT) platform, has announced a new collaboration with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, the country’s digital telecommunications provider, to enhance access to high-quality digital content.

The Indonesia Investment Management Agency, Danantara Indonesia, and the Indonesia Investment Authority (INA) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French mining company Eramet to explore the establishment of a strategic investment platform in the nickel sector, spanning upstream to downstream operations.

East Ventures' Digital Competitiveness Index 2025 report showed Tuesday the consistent improvement in Indonesia's interprovincial digital competitiveness, as reflected by the EV-DCI 2025 score of 38.8.

American technology conglomerate Microsoft announced Tuesday the opening of its first cloud region in Indonesia, called Indonesia Central.

Google Cloud announced Thursday a series of artificial intelligence (AI)-focused initiatives designed to unlock further economic value for Indonesia, in alignment with the government’s Indonesia Emas 2045 vision.